Falmouth forms a committee on October 26…

October 1775 CE

Falmouth forms a committee on October 26 to raise funds for the distressed families. More than a thousand people (out of an estimated population of twenty-five hundred), including at least one hundred and sixty families, have been left homeless by the raid.

The Massachusetts Provincial Congress authorizes £250 to be paid to the distressed families, and arranges for the distribution of up to fifteen bushels of corn to those left destitute.

As late as 1779, additional grants will be made to needy families in Falmouth.

Despite numerous earlier entreaties to a wide variety of parties, significant recompense will not be made until 1791, when Congress will grant two tracts of land as compensation.

These tracts will become the towns of New Portland and Freeman.

The town of Falmouth accounts losses in the raid at over £50,000.

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